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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: X11R5 for 386bsd part 1 of 3
Message-ID: <6-sl+7+.hasty@netcom.com>
Date: 25 Jun 92 00:29:57 GMT
References: <mese9nc@sgi.sgi.com>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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In article <mese9nc@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
>hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>+---------------
>| The port is not over much work to do, for instance sometimes xterm gets in
>| a funny state like if it lost track of the parity and echoes garbage, if you
>| play around with the window, you may get it to work right or the session
>| restarts!
>+---------------
>
>I have seen something like this even on "commercial" ports. Are you
>sure it's not that the window saw a <control-key-down> and never saw
>a <control-key-up>? That will make plain characters come out "controlled"
>(i.e. "a" shows as "<cntl-A>".) In particular, typing "d" will log you
>out! Try moving the mouse into the window and typing the control key
>down and up, and then type a plain character (e.g., "a") and see if the
>problem is gone.
>
>I have seen this mostly occurring if a new xterm pops up right where
>the mouse happens to be...
>
>
>-Rob
>
>-----
>Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com
>Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)390-1673
>2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
>Mountain View, CA 94043
>
Thank you for the tip.
Here is list of my findings in using xterm:
o when using tcsh and requesting output to the terminal like ls or cat
xterm will exit. For now, I just moved over to sh and the problem has
not surface, I know this is not a solution....
o sometimes the caps key state remains on, I found out that by typing
control-u, I get my lower case keys back!
o if I launched an X application and type control-c from the window
which lauched the application sometimes the control key state stays on
as Bob pointed out just press the control key and you are back to
normal state...
Enjoy,
Amancio